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If he is no longer familiar with Royalty as with his garter, the fault is not his his adherence to his principles caused the separation his love of his country was the cloud that intercepted the sunshine of court-favour. This is so far well. Mr.
Deduct from the writer's age "twice told the period spent on stubborn Troy," and you will still leave him more than forty when he sate down to the miserable siege of court-favour. He has before told us "A fool at forty is a fool indeed." After all, the siege seems to have been raised only in consequence of what the general thought his "deathbed."
In his heart the Lord Keeper rejoiced at having conciliated an adversary so formidable, while, with a mixture of pleasure and anxiety, he anticipated the great things his young companion might achieve, were the breath of court-favour to fill his sails.
But if ever the king indeed meditated such a change, he was too timid, and too much accustomed to the influence which the duke had long exercised over him, to summon up resolution enough for effecting such a purpose; and at all events it is certain, that Buckingham, though surviving the master by whom he was raised, had the rare chance to experience no wane of the most splendid court-favour during two reigns, until it was at once eclipsed in his blood by the dagger of his assassin Felton.
His own inclinations pointed to a military career, which he had on various occasions urged his father to allow him to adopt; but Don Manuel had invariably refused his request, alleging the poor prospect of advancement in time of peace, and in a service in which nearly all promotion was gained by interest and court-favour.
His lordship is patriarchal in his tastes one wife at a time was insufficient, and he designed US the honour of his left hand. Now, is not this too insolent that I could not grace him with a few marks of court-favour, but he must presume to think my hand and crown at his disposal?
To him a man of substance, with landed property in three counties the rays of immediate court-favour were probably of less importance than to Chaucer; but it is not necessity only which makes courtiers of so many of us: some are born to the vocation, and Gower strikes one as naturally more prudent and cautious in short, more of a politic personage than Chaucer.
So it had been in Bamberg and Wurzburg, in Geneva two generations back, in Alsace scarce as many years back: at Edinburgh in Scotland where thirty persons had suffered in one day ten years ago that; in the district of Como, where a round thousand had suffered! Nobility had not availed to save some, nor court-favour others; nor wealth, nor youth, nor beauty.
The family seem to have held high rank or court-favour in the reign of Henry I., for they obtained the "grand serjeanty" of all the country east of the river Perrot, as far as Bristol Bridge; and there is a tradition, that one of the family was standard-bearer to Henry I. in the Irish invasion. In England, the family subsequently perished; the estates passing, by a daughter, into other families.
To a high- minded man, wealth, power, court-favour, even personal safety, would have appeared of no account, when opposed to friendship, gratitude, and honour.
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